Why is Facebook so bland?

Zadie Smith has an idea: Here’s my guess: [Mark Zuckerberg] wants to be like everybody else. He wants to be liked. Those 1.0 people who couldn’t understand Zuckerberg’s apparently ham-fisted PR move of giving the school system of Newark $100 million on the very day the movie [about Facebook] came out—they just don’t get it.Continue reading “Why is Facebook so bland?”

The best line on “The Social Network”

From a review on The Millions by Sonja Chung:  I came away from the film wanting to send Mr. Zuckerberg a Facebook message saying, “Don’t worry, kid.  Just relax and try to enjoy your life” but never wanting to meet the guy – in other words, wanting to be “friends,” but not friends. But ChungContinue reading “The best line on “The Social Network””